“The Desperado”
Description
"There was a desperado from the wild and woolly West, He came into Chicago just to give the West a rest." He visits Coney Island to see "the girls all dressed in tights"; he gets so excited that he shoots out the lights. He ends up in prison
Notes
Cripple Creek, Colorado was a notoriously wide-open town in the late 1800s. - PJS
References
- Silber-FSWB, p. 28, "The Desperado" (1 text)
- DT, DESPRAD2*
- BI, FSWB028